Boot Pack

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Boot Pack

Other wise known as: trail

“Following Cal’s boot pack sucks, each step is like three feet from the next.”

A boot back is the path that is created by someone post holing and breaking trail through moderately deep snow.

Typically someone will create a boot pack when they are off hiking out of bounds or back up to a jump.

When someone makes a boot pack up a steep section they will kick in with each step so it is almost like a set of stairs. It is common courtesy and also a hell of a lot easier, to follow their steps exactly. This keeps the boot pack in the best possible condition and easiest to follow. When people step out of the boot pack or make their own it is easier to for each step to become less defined and become jumbled together, which typically ends in a sketchy, slippery hike.

It is also common courtesy to take turns breaking trail when hiking up because it is typically very exhausting.